I live within view of Uniting AgeWell and it is aptly named. Not only does my 98yr old mother have friends who reside here, when residents have a birthday the Aged Care facility throws a party, out on the huge patio if the weather is conducive; with the likes of Elvis Presley's 'A Hunk of Love', Roy Orbiso's 'Cryin'' & even Cindy Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to have Fun' ~ and they most certainly do! The music is live, sung by cover artists & blares up and down conservative Barkly St. As for the finalès like 'Knees Up Mother Brown' they're belted out, and oh man the way those residents hit the floor makes me feel like bustin' some moves myself ;)! My neighbours and I often joke they're the noisiest, most raucous neighbours in the street! The main building of the care facility is Heritage Listed, built circa 1921 & was in bygone days The Andrew Kerr Children's Home. In fact the building has a rich history, too extensive & inapt here. Speaking of children, adjacent to AgeWell there's a preschool and the two facilities often have organised visits to the other: I'm told it's something to do with a germane intergenerational thingy-ma-jig (that's the technical term) of increasing the happiness of those on either end of the human life line. On one occasion I witnessed the local teenager thugs menacingly swaggering along Barkly St, & as they caught an eye-full of The Raging Granny~Granddaddy's making mayhem, the "thugs" instantly looked like children again. What a great place to unite and age well. G.
